Abstract
Anderson generating functions have received a growing attention in function field arithmetic in the last years. Despite their introduction by Anderson in the 1980s where they were at the heart of comparison isomorphisms, further important applications, e.g., to transcendence theory have only been discovered recently. The Anderson–Thakur special function interpolates L-values via Pellarin-type identities, and its values at algebraic elements recover Gauss–Thakur sums, as shown by Anglès and Pellarin. For Drinfeld–Hayes modules, generalizations of Anderson generating functions have been introduced by Green–Papanikolas and – under the name of “special functions” – by Anglès, Ngo Dac and Tavares Ribeiro. In this article, we provide a general construction of special functions attached to any Anderson A-module. We show direct links of the space of special functions to the period lattice, and to the Betti cohomology of the A-motive. We also undertake the study of Gauss–Thakur sums for Anderson A-modules, and show that the result of Anglès–Pellarin relating values of the special functions to Gauss–Thakur sums holds in this generality.
Acknowledgements
Both authors thank Rudy Perkins for a result on the tensor powers of the Carlitz module, that finally does not appear anymore in the paper, but led us on the right track. This work is part of the PhD thesis of the first author under the supervision of Federico Pellarin.
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